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How to use rending in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
There was a deep boom, then the sound of rending metal and breaking glass, and still it didn't stop.
But as we limp into the 21st century, that gender gap is rending the fabric of the entire African-American community.
While all around her are weeping and rending their garments over Mike, she remains dry-eyed and tight-lipped.
The new prime minister quickly addressed several issues rending Malaysia's ethnically and religiously diverse population.
There is a looming famine in Eritrea, a civil war rending Burundi, and perhaps 4m Sudanese refugees.
He was right, obviously—hence the rending of garments in Europe's capitals.
The mother's search for and discovery of how to deal with the issue was sometimes heart rending but ultimately heart warming.
If you really repented, there must have been thorough repentance and rending the heart.
After the departure of the soul the immediate family is given a religiously sanctioned means to express grief by rending their garments.
Conflict has bred conflict, reopening half-healed tribal and caste divisions and rending new ones.
There she joined her team for the long and uneventful drive to Port au Prince and the long week of heart rending work.
On this rending crust of earth, we live and have built our societies.
In spite of the agony of the rending, he is and remains the Messiah.
Recently, the World Bank's report revealed that the pervasive corruption, a suffocating bureaucracy and weak law enforcement are crippling the growth of private business, rending them uncompetitive globally economy.
And it has cascaded with an unprecedented furiousness throughout the entire automotive supply chain, rending that which is both tightly and loosely coupled.
Examples from Classical Literature
It is heart rending and often provokes in me a tsunamic pity, an earthquake of goodwill.
With a rending, riving sound the ship split in two where the terrible, serrated back of the Hansel reef was sawing into her keel.
As he did so, the air seemed to split in two, there was a blinding rending crash.
She managed it with difficulty between the convulsions that were rending her.
Suddenly they were seen to shudder, and Diocletian rose to his feet rending his garments.
Your eyes, staring and horror-struck, will observe your own hands rending her.
A strange planet is this, for the shifting of national loyalties and the rending and intertwining of bonds of union!
The faint swarming toward the light and the rending of the sphere of hope, frustrate, inutile.
It was an explosion, yes, but subtly different from the rending snap of hexynitrate.
The Veronese were for rending their hearts and not their rulers that day.
In a moment more the agonising, hacking, rending cough came on.
The disjointed music of a wheezy accordion was rending the night.
The rending noises of the ice in all directions were distinct and fearful.
There was a cracking and rending of timbers, and the water rushed in.
There was a terrific rending of tree trunks and webbed creepers.
And then was heard the rending of the rock as Fenrir broke loose.
The rending crash which accompanies the breaking of floes of ice.
Rokoff fought furiously but futilely against the growling, rending fate that had overtaken him.
Huge and slightly curved, with a hefty wooden handle, it's clearly no table knife but a thing for rending flesh.
Even before the rending sound which followed Meriem knew that she had misjudged the strength of the limb.
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